Chris: First of all, I just wanted to let you know that as a Catholic Christian guy, I have been praying for your recovery! Secondly. . .even though where I live, things are quite different from how you describe ( No one in my area of South eastern Pennsylvania would have any idea what a face cord is), I greatly appreciate how you are allowing for different experiences of everything, from the nomenclature of firewood management measuring devices, etc., I really like how you are accepting of the regional differences. One thing that is not debatable is your commitment to PPE. As a medical provider for almost forty years, I have seen the results of not using proper PPE. Thank you for the service you provide to the firewood community!
I really like these fireside chats!! They show how we do our jobs either safely or not!! Lots of knowledge is shared during these chats. Thanks Chris!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Great video ! I use those zip strips on my saw . Way better than sticks or any other contraption for marking. I stack my wood on pallets and put roofing tin on top . I live in a wetlands with mostly trees . I have lots of small chunks and odd pieces and I will do the pallets enclosure like you do for them. Also liked your safety talk . I’m going to look into the leg protection and one key is never be in a hurry when sawing wood . Thanks
I dont have a firewood business. I live in a suburban environment in new zealand. I just love the firewood info because i recently bought my first house and it has a wood stove. chopped a lot of trees down when i first bought the property and now im heating with them. Currently burning pine. Pine is very popular in nz. We mostly have pine, macrocarpa and gum to burn. Most other wood is native and it is frowned upon to fell native trees in nz. Keep up the interesting work 👍
Great fireside information from you Chris. Hope you are getting better quicker so you can get back in the woodyard and do what you love doing. Take care.
Your Channel is the best on CZcams bar none! My opinion! I switched to the pallet system and it's tons faster and it dries just fine. Come on People? Keep posting.
Northern Minnesota we can get cut and split delivered 5 cords for $1000 $200 a cord. I buy 5 cords in 8’ rounds and buck it and split, stack myself for $600 and I like it. It’s nothing but lakes and woods around us. And we only heat with wood. Great Q&A Thanks for all this channel gives. Stay safe out there.
@@InTheWoodyard yes it is, when you live in the woods like we do, it’s very cheap. And supply and demand is not hard to come by up here. Therefore the cheap prices.
Nice talk Chris. I’m guessing you made this video before you really knew why you were sick. Hopefully your recovery is going well. Basic firewood 101 -just about everything anyone needs to know about producing, selling, buying firewood. Age has a lot to do with hearing loss. 70 something years ago, parents weren’t worried about hearing loss. I use hearing aids to communicate and an app on my phone to link them. Times have changed for the better on this issue. Outdoors around noisy equipment my hearing aids are not used obviously and hearing protection is always used now. 2 cylinder John Deere tractors, shotguns, rifles, motorcycles and playing in a 1960’s rock band when I was young, ignorant and invincible caused a lot of hearing loss. GNI
@@InTheWoodyard My sight has been pretty much fully restored after cataract surgery in both eyes recently. I can see very well now but wear sunglasses in bright sunlight and safety glasses doing any type of dusty work. The surgery was something I would highly recommend to anyone with cataracts.
Nice video Chris! A good break from your usual routine (which I love by the way). I’ve learned so much from your channel as a newbie heating my home with wood. Thanks!
Great video Chris! I liked what you said about the safety equipment. The cost of that equipment is the cheapest insurance policy you can buy for the equipment you are running!!
Great Video Chris: I hope your feeling better. I just got back from your neck of the woods. I was looking at some logging equipment in Northern WI and the UP.
Chris, sorry you have been feeling so bad. Hope you feel better soon. I built a small bin that is 8'X10' on the edge of a field. It is doing a good job of drying. I will have to empty it this winter because it is at the edge of the trees. If leaves fall into it, they will fill the cracks and hold moisture. I am going to cover it before fall. Where yours set is ideal.. I am impressed at how fast it dries.
Chris, the proof that you are doing things the right way is that your customers are happy. You are keeping current customers and gaining new customers. If your wood wasn't dry enough, the right amount or the right size, you would be out of business. Keep up the good work.
A 20in bar doesn't give a 40in double-cut. Some brands measure to the bar nuts, some measure to the front of the engine crankcase. Then add the bucking spikes. Your 20-inch bar could be a 17in cut, 34in double-cut.
I totally agree with the safety gear, after 45 years of running a saw wearing chaps they paid for themselves this past winter. I watched a video the other day where the guy was wearing shorts and sneakers. He put on his chaps and glasses, hearing protection and went to work. 🤦🏽♂️
Good day Chris ! 100% correct on everything you have said. I could not of said it better. Love to see these sit down videos where u take time and relax enjoy the fire. Get well soon my friend cheers 🍻 🔥🇨🇦
Holz Hausen is a way to stack firewood, they start out stacking in a circle and tossing wood into the center. Your way is basically the same but you're using the pallets to hold the wood. Smarter not harder!
I tried this method because it looks awesome. The wood on the outer edge seasoned real nice, but all the wood in the center "core" of the pile didn't, and it developed mold 👎👎. I even had the center pile on pallets damnit haha
Hi Chris, sorry to see you're still crook. I've cut a lot of wood in the winter and you are bang on,it does continue to dry throughout. Provided you don't get months of rain. A few good hard frosts sure help suck that moisture out too! Get well mate. Cheers from HB NZ
Great Chat Chris, and I think you sounded perked up more as the video went on. 👍 I think you said it was Lyme again, and we all hope youbare feeling better!
Really nice chill by the fire🔥 video Chris, definitely wouldn't mind watching these type of videos in the future!! Get well soon Chris and have a great thrusday morning..
Your dad is a lucky man. I’m sure he’s fed up having to listened to you for his entire life. At least with his hearing loss, he has some peaceful moments in his older years. Boy can you talk up a storm!!
There’s no bar debate when you know how to be prepared lol I have multiple saws, 20” 25” and 32”. The 20” works awesome for ripping cuz my back doesn’t like her anymore, 25 is also perfect for me and just picked up another saw for it (400), and sometimes when you get into a 20+ log it’s nice to let your opened up 500 scream on a 32, or at least it makes you smile 😉 what I would like to know is, what is the area size you use for your current wood yard? I’m in the middle of sorting out a power line easement and if they will let me gate off an abandoned road to see how much room I have and how easy my trucking access is
I have two quarter acre lots seperated by a low use road and the lots have an old road running through that too, the side I want to use is abandoned but due to a power line running along the outside edge of the lot I have to get easement permission to gate it off cuz I can’t trust people to not try to steal the wood. The road would make great access for offloading mule trains and I can push out into bins, and if I get a dumper I can follow the tree services in “the city of trees” I live in. Iv always been oldschool cut a cord a day by truck but we get lots of getting snowed out in the mountains
Great video. I know what you mean about being under the weather. I've been having breathing trouble the passed few days. But that's ok. Thanks for sharing the info
Yup, most of north America is face cords. The east coast is full cord or fraction of and some parts of the USA and Canada use ric, rank, row, truckload, bush cord. So I can see why it is confusing... but each region has it's own words and terms and saying for lots of things. But many people do not get to far from home and don't know that it is not like "back home" everywhere.
Take good care of yourself Chris. I can't diagnose from here, BUTT your symptoms do mock Lyme. Blood test is simple. Nice chat. Stacking: I do it for our wood stoves and cause I love ( love O.C.D. ) the look of the oh so neat stacks that I can observe and often snort before and after using for the winter. It is said that Maine has two seasons: 11 months of winter, and 1 month poor sledding. Ain't that bad but close. The wood will dry in winter; lower humidity. You take care. JMNSHO
Everything required to produce and deliver firewood costs about the same all over the country. I sell all my firewood in Nashville and the surrounding cities. Hardly anyone owns a truck, trailer, chainsaw or splitter in that area. Out in my area everybody has a truck and chainsaw. I bag two to three times more per "RICK" by driving 60-80 miles and typically deliver three to four ricks per trip. Nice bank for a little extra driving.
Shorter wood works better in these smokeless fire pits. At least 1in shorter than the narrowest dimensions of the "squircle" pits like yours will help it go smokeless very fast. My East Oak is 13in, need a maximum of 12in wood. It goes smokeless almost right away.
As usual this got cinda long.. Take the isolated community with gobs of wood. add a power rate thats half the national average of 0.14 cents. And you have my experience. . The lack of freezing weather and wind, with mild temps definitely affects drying. You dont have a open air roof over the wood. and a air gap underneath, your definitely going up in water content. With the near 100% humidity and regular dew point hits all winter. . It definitely encourages going to a heat pump as its sub $50 a month. After the installation cost of usually 12 to 18k and actually have a warranty by the installation company. That cost does stop some people, but theres no shortage of wood around. . So locally for the most part, its people just getting by selling wood, at absolutely rock bottom prices. And i can not justifie competing with that. . The only way to make it is get the wood in to the more populated areas, where the power rate is around the national average. And of course charge accordingly for the 60 something mile drive. . I believe for all of Oregon Washington and Idaho the highest power rate is 0.160 And the overall average of the 3 states is mabe $0.110 . I believe Washington still has one very small power district. that was at $0.035-ish the last time i looked it up. [[EDIT]] ((I looked it up, $0.027 is the lowest rate in Washington state))
New construction in WA cannot install fire burning appliance as primary source of heat (only secondary). Fewer and fewer people burn with wood now days, around here anyway. It’s a shame with how efficient stoves can be.
@InTheWoodyard there is a push for part of Oregon to transfer to Idaho state. . Last time anything like it happened was when, West Virginia was created.
When ppl say stacked wood is the best that means stacked in 3 rows, lifted from ground and covered on top dries faster. That kind of wood dries 20-30% faster vs just trown in a pile. Both methods are fine and you save huge amount of work with not stacking but for example you lose a day of drying time after a rain. Also those bottom pallets sink a little bit and if you don't lift them up you lose airflow but you gain some with vertical ones. Its pro and cons for both methods: if you have 3 cords and tiny storage=stack, if you have a 1000 and open field = bins, anything in between flip a coin.
I have been cutting splitting stacking and selling about 200 full cords a year for decades now. Loose wood on pallets in the open dries WAY faster than any other method I had tried. I know 3 FULL time firewood producers that produce 3-6 semi truck loads a week and they never stack wood..it is stored in huge piled cones for several months and sold. Never stacked. So are they wrong too??
@@InTheWoodyard No Chris they are not wrong, piles are not wrong, stacking is not wrong, your bins are not wrong, totes is not wrong. Those 3 full time firewood producers do that cos it saves WORK HOURS - they don't do it cos it is FASTEST drying method. Yours way is also doing same and is the best way to do it for a 200 cords. It is just that big bin of yours stacked in 3 rows would dry a little bit faster. If you still want to claim that not covered wood in the middle of your pile down at the bottom would dry faster vs any piece stacked in 3 rows and covered who am I to stop you, you do you.
Do you think 5 mil plastic wrapped around your woodshed during summer months would bake your wood and speed up dry time in the sunny, hot, summer months and kill any possible bugs in your firewood?
Excellent fireside chat and good info. Here in Pennsylvania it's usually a cord or a half-cord you buy. Hope you are feeling better, keep popping the meds..... But what do you call a foot-long sandwich is Wisconsin?
My brother in law gets upset when we call it pop. He's from a different part of the state of New Yorkifornia. He says, "It's soda, pop is a sound." 😂 - Tim
The Average sick man would be laid up in bed, but you ain’t average!! 😉😂 I’ve heard you cover these topics before and I enjoy your advice and information EVERY time! Appreciate ya!! Get to feeling better!!
Hope you are feeling better when you get this where I worked it would be piled cause we use conveyer set out in sun and turn gray on top people come in to buy it and want all gray wood tell them that the wood this at end of pile tell them the wood under the gray stuff is more seasoned cause been there longer i just love how you explain everything hope don't bother you to much just bring back memories and will get that picture to you soon people ask why you don't get a processor it takes money and you know if it would benefit you for your operation we have one cause someone is there 5 days a week then September goes to six 30 hours monday thru Friday then 8 hours on Saturday so 38 hrs and mostly busy on Saturday cause people 2 day weekend only time to get wood i even set in the rain and made money cause people only time to get it come for a load ask how long im here say till 4 come and get 3 to 4 More loads have people come September get 20 8 ft pickup boxes and have wood for the year sell racks of cherry apple hickory and oak for smoking get my wood have a stick smoker just watching your videos but can't comment on them at the time so combine my thoughts cutting logs some go by eyesight other have a stick also some doors on wood burners doors only take a twelve to fourteen in log but it all works out on a Saturday they might run the processing machine and i have four people on double splitter my job was just waiting on customer setting on my rearend playing cash register like i said don't comment on all your stuff so put it all together your a good and honest man enjoy watching you would like to meet but I talk a lot and no work would get done take care my friend i want to get better and go back to sell again enjoy the people and they say where is the old man and when is he coming back like that means more than customer make friends treat them right and they remember you 15:29
Chris: First of all, I just wanted to let you know that as a Catholic Christian guy, I have been praying for your recovery!
Secondly. . .even though where I live, things are quite different from how you describe ( No one in my area of South eastern Pennsylvania would have any idea what a face cord is), I greatly appreciate how you are allowing for different experiences of everything, from the nomenclature of firewood management measuring devices, etc., I really like how you are accepting of the regional differences.
One thing that is not debatable is your commitment to PPE.
As a medical provider for almost forty years, I have seen the results of not using proper PPE. Thank you for the service you provide to the firewood community!
Thanks for watching and for the kind words!
I really like these fireside chats!! They show how we do our jobs either safely or not!! Lots of knowledge is shared during these chats. Thanks Chris!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Thanks!
100% agree love these
The Fireside chat is a classic from way back. Hope you are feeling better Chris
Thanks!
Great video ! I use those zip strips on my saw . Way better than sticks or any other contraption for marking. I stack my wood on pallets and put roofing tin on top . I live in a wetlands with mostly trees . I have lots of small chunks and odd pieces and I will do the pallets enclosure like you do for them. Also liked your safety talk . I’m going to look into the leg protection and one key is never be in a hurry when sawing wood . Thanks
Thanks a bunch...YES chaps are cheap compared to a 120 stitches witch is the average chain saw cut!
I dont have a firewood business. I live in a suburban environment in new zealand. I just love the firewood info because i recently bought my first house and it has a wood stove. chopped a lot of trees down when i first bought the property and now im heating with them. Currently burning pine. Pine is very popular in nz. We mostly have pine, macrocarpa and gum to burn. Most other wood is native and it is frowned upon to fell native trees in nz. Keep up the interesting work 👍
Thanks so much for watching from so far away, I look better from a distance!
Great fireside information from you Chris. Hope you are getting better quicker so you can get back in the woodyard and do what you love doing. Take care.
Thanks, much better now...That's the plan!
Your Channel is the best on CZcams bar none! My opinion! I switched to the pallet system and it's tons faster and it dries just fine. Come on People? Keep posting.
Yup, it does dry well as long as the sun and wind can hit it!
Chris you are such a positive wealth of great knowledge and experience. I’ve learned and applied so much from you; thanks!
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
Great video!! Especially when you say "pine is fine"
It sure is! Thanks!
My wife loves the look of the wood stack in the backyard. Keeps the weight off me and teaches the kids how to work. Win, win, win
Yes, I agree, it does look good...no doubt ...and the kids working ....big win!
Northern Minnesota we can get cut and split delivered 5 cords for $1000
$200 a cord.
I buy 5 cords in 8’ rounds and buck it and split, stack myself for $600 and I like it.
It’s nothing but lakes and woods around us.
And we only heat with wood.
Great Q&A
Thanks for all this channel gives. Stay safe out there.
Thanks so much for watching...$200 a full cord is cheap!
@@InTheWoodyard yes it is, when you live in the woods like we do, it’s very cheap. And supply and demand is not hard to come by up here. Therefore the cheap prices.
Great video. Loving the explanations. Fireside chat. Hope to see more of this .!!!!!!! 🦾🧬☀️
Thanks I will do more in the future!
Nice fire & backyard hope you get well soon 😊
Thanks!
Hope you get better soon, Chris! Thanks for sharing all this information with us, it's always appreciated!
Thanks... I am much better now!
All good topics today, Chris. Glad you are outside Getting fresh air.
Thanks Sir Daniel...much better now!
Nice talk Chris. I’m guessing you made this video before you really knew why you were sick. Hopefully your recovery is going well. Basic firewood 101 -just about everything anyone needs to know about producing, selling, buying firewood. Age has a lot to do with hearing loss. 70 something years ago, parents weren’t worried about hearing loss. I use hearing aids to communicate and an app on my phone to link them. Times have changed for the better on this issue. Outdoors around noisy equipment my hearing aids are not used obviously and hearing protection is always used now. 2 cylinder John Deere tractors, shotguns, rifles, motorcycles and playing in a 1960’s rock band when I was young, ignorant and invincible caused a lot of hearing loss. GNI
Yes, a lot of use are just like you. Hearing is similar to sight ...once you loose it it is gone and very hard to get any back.
@@InTheWoodyard My sight has been pretty much fully restored after cataract surgery in both eyes recently. I can see very well now but wear sunglasses in bright sunlight and safety glasses doing any type of dusty work. The surgery was something I would highly recommend to anyone with cataracts.
Nice video Chris! A good break from your usual routine (which I love by the way). I’ve learned so much from your channel as a newbie heating my home with wood. Thanks!
I appreciate that! Thanks!
Good wisdom. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve been MIA on watching your videos. Summer is go time for me over here. 🇺🇸👍🏼
Welcome back!
Great video Chris! I liked what you said about the safety equipment. The cost of that equipment is the cheapest insurance policy you can buy for the equipment you are running!!
Yup, thanks!
Excellent video Chris! Great way to start my day! Hot coffee and In The Woodyard!
Thanks!
Awesome fire!!!
Thanks!
Great Video Chris: I hope your feeling better. I just got back from your neck of the woods. I was looking at some logging equipment in Northern WI and the UP.
Nice! Thanks much better now!
Nice fireside chat Chris and glad you are on the mend!
Yes, thanks Mr. Bill!
Chris, sorry you have been feeling so bad. Hope you feel better soon. I built a small bin that is 8'X10' on the edge of a field. It is doing a good job of drying. I will have to empty it this winter because it is at the edge of the trees. If leaves fall into it, they will fill the cracks and hold moisture. I am going to cover it before fall. Where yours set is ideal.. I am impressed at how fast it dries.
Sounds great, yours will be good too. You are right about the leaves and moisture!
Great topics like always!!!
Glad you like them!
Please get well soon Chris. I like seeing you in the wood yard. Thanks
Thank you, I much better now!
Chris, the proof that you are doing things the right way is that your customers are happy. You are keeping current customers and gaining new customers. If your wood wasn't dry enough, the right amount or the right size, you would be out of business. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, yup.
Great talk! Glad you’re feeling better👍👍
Yup, thanks!
A 20in bar doesn't give a 40in double-cut. Some brands measure to the bar nuts, some measure to the front of the engine crankcase. Then add the bucking spikes. Your 20-inch bar could be a 17in cut, 34in double-cut.
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Good morning Chris!!😀😀
I really enjoyed the chat!!😀😀
Take care my friend!!😀😀💚💚
Logger Al
Thanks a bunch my good man!
Thanks for the fireside chat Chris. Enjoyed sitting around your smoke free fire.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was a nice change of pace, good video.
Glad you liked it!
Nicely done. Thank You.
Thanks for watching!
Nice video. Fireside chats is a nice touch.
Hope you feel better soon.
Thanks!
Goddamn you are a good guy!
Respect and thanks!
Thanks for watching!
I totally agree with the safety gear, after 45 years of running a saw wearing chaps they paid for themselves this past winter. I watched a video the other day where the guy was wearing shorts and sneakers. He put on his chaps and glasses, hearing protection and went to work. 🤦🏽♂️
Good try but sneakers????? Nope!
Yeah I like these virtual fireside chats too.
Thanks, I will do it again sometime.
@@InTheWoodyard that's fantastic, thanks!
Great talk Chris, I think you got stronger the longer you talked.
I had not talked much that day until then!
Nice chat & fire ….keep feeling better!
Thank you, I will!
I don't understand why people think stacking wood is better for drying than just piling it up in those bins. When stacked ot is tighter together...
Habit, looks, space, OCD, measuring. Yup stacked tight slows the process of drying..the looser the better.
bless you Chris and get well soon.
Thanks!
Good day Chris ! 100% correct on everything you have said. I could not of said it better. Love to see these sit down videos where u take time and relax enjoy the fire. Get well soon my friend cheers 🍻 🔥🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed it! I will do it again sometime!
Heal up boss.
Great discussion.
Much appreciated
Rule #1, It was 108* today, if the wood is pilled, it will dry!
Yup, heat is good.
Holz Hausen is a way to stack firewood, they start out stacking in a circle and tossing wood into the center. Your way is basically the same but you're using the pallets to hold the wood. Smarter not harder!
I tried this method because it looks awesome. The wood on the outer edge seasoned real nice, but all the wood in the center "core" of the pile didn't, and it developed mold 👎👎. I even had the center pile on pallets damnit haha
They look cool and save space but way more work and touching of the wood.
interesting!
Great fireside chat today Chris, I hope you get better soon we have work to do. Keep on cutting
Yup, better now, thanks!
Hi Chris, sorry to see you're still crook. I've cut a lot of wood in the winter and you are bang on,it does continue to dry throughout. Provided you don't get months of rain. A few good hard frosts sure help suck that moisture out too! Get well mate. Cheers from HB NZ
Thanks, I am much better now!
Great Chat Chris, and I think you sounded perked up more as the video went on. 👍
I think you said it was Lyme again, and we all hope youbare feeling better!
Yup, I am much better now! Thanks!
Really nice chill by the fire🔥 video Chris, definitely wouldn't mind watching these type of videos in the future!! Get well soon Chris and have a great thrusday morning..
I will do some more it the future...maybe once a month or so. I get a lot of questions that would be good to share with everyone.
@InTheWoodyard sounds good looking forward to it..
I think all this sickness has been brought down on you by the Husqvarna God's for buying that sthil. Get well soon.
Haaaaa! Maybe so!
Cool ! That you feel better
Thanks, yes much better...THANKS!
Sorry your still feeling sick Chris🙏
A large bar is good in a jig to cut logs for timber.
That Abreast job went well.
Yup, thanks!
Your dad is a lucky man. I’m sure he’s fed up having to listened to you for his entire life. At least with his hearing loss, he has some peaceful moments in his older years. Boy can you talk up a storm!!
He talks way more than me, I am the quiet on in the family so......
There’s no bar debate when you know how to be prepared lol I have multiple saws, 20” 25” and 32”. The 20” works awesome for ripping cuz my back doesn’t like her anymore, 25 is also perfect for me and just picked up another saw for it (400), and sometimes when you get into a 20+ log it’s nice to let your opened up 500 scream on a 32, or at least it makes you smile 😉 what I would like to know is, what is the area size you use for your current wood yard? I’m in the middle of sorting out a power line easement and if they will let me gate off an abandoned road to see how much room I have and how easy my trucking access is
Bert would say..."Ya by Ya" I do not know ...maybe an acre??
I have two quarter acre lots seperated by a low use road and the lots have an old road running through that too, the side I want to use is abandoned but due to a power line running along the outside edge of the lot I have to get easement permission to gate it off cuz I can’t trust people to not try to steal the wood. The road would make great access for offloading mule trains and I can push out into bins, and if I get a dumper I can follow the tree services in “the city of trees” I live in. Iv always been oldschool cut a cord a day by truck but we get lots of getting snowed out in the mountains
Great video. I know what you mean about being under the weather. I've been having breathing trouble the passed few days. But that's ok. Thanks for sharing the info
Take care and get better I don't want to loose my #1 viewer!
@@InTheWoodyard I'm doing better. I'll be cutting firewood this weekend.
Love the chats, here in CT we say face cords
Yup, most of north America is face cords. The east coast is full cord or fraction of and some parts of the USA and Canada use ric, rank, row, truckload, bush cord. So I can see why it is confusing... but each region has it's own words and terms and saying for lots of things. But many people do not get to far from home and don't know that it is not like "back home" everywhere.
Chris, your videos have become part of the daily routine ... Please don't die 😆. Feel better wood boss!
I try every day to not die so far I am 22587 and 0! I am shooting for another 14600!
Enjoyed the chat!
Thanks !!
Good vid…once that fire pit got hot that smoke did stop swirling around
Thanks, yes it takes a while for it to get going well.
I hope you already feel better by the time this is posted and we get to see it.
Thanks...much better now!
Great chat. 👍🏻
thanks!
Yup👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Yup!!
Take good care of yourself Chris. I can't diagnose from here, BUTT your symptoms do mock Lyme. Blood test is simple. Nice chat. Stacking: I do it for our wood stoves and cause I love ( love O.C.D. ) the look of the oh so neat stacks that I can observe and often snort before and after using for the winter. It is said that Maine has two seasons: 11 months of winter, and 1 month poor sledding. Ain't that bad but close. The wood will dry in winter; lower humidity. You take care. JMNSHO
Thanks!
hey Chris , Great hat
Thanks!!
Please wood hounds were your PPE. Brother in law is fighting to save his right foot.if things go ok it’s going to be a 6 to 8 week recovery
Yup, nasty cuts for sure! I hope he can save it!
Everything required to produce and deliver firewood costs about the same all over the country. I sell all my firewood in Nashville and the surrounding cities. Hardly anyone owns a truck, trailer, chainsaw or splitter in that area. Out in my area everybody has a truck and chainsaw. I bag two to three times more per "RICK" by driving 60-80 miles and typically deliver three to four ricks per trip. Nice bank for a little extra driving.
That is awesome...go to the customers!
Shorter wood works better in these smokeless fire pits. At least 1in shorter than the narrowest dimensions of the "squircle" pits like yours will help it go smokeless very fast. My East Oak is 13in, need a maximum of 12in wood. It goes smokeless almost right away.
ok
As usual this got cinda long..
Take the isolated community with gobs of wood.
add a power rate thats half the national average of 0.14 cents. And you have my experience.
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The lack of freezing weather and wind, with mild temps definitely affects drying.
You dont have a open air roof over the wood. and a air gap underneath, your definitely going up in water content.
With the near 100% humidity and regular dew point hits all winter.
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It definitely encourages going to a heat pump as its sub $50 a month. After the installation cost of usually 12 to 18k and actually have a warranty by the installation company.
That cost does stop some people, but theres no shortage of wood around.
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So locally for the most part, its people just getting by selling wood, at absolutely rock bottom prices.
And i can not justifie competing with that.
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The only way to make it is get the wood in to the more populated areas, where the power rate is around the national average. And of course charge accordingly for the 60 something mile drive.
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I believe for all of Oregon Washington and Idaho the highest power rate is 0.160
And the overall average of the 3 states is mabe $0.110
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I believe Washington still has one very small power district. that was at $0.035-ish the last time i looked it up.
[[EDIT]]
((I looked it up, $0.027 is the lowest rate in Washington state))
New construction in WA cannot install fire burning appliance as primary source of heat (only secondary). Fewer and fewer people burn with wood now days, around here anyway. It’s a shame with how efficient stoves can be.
Maybe you need to use a kiln to dry wood???
Sounds kinda un-free maybe it's time to move!
@InTheWoodyard there is a push for part of Oregon to transfer to Idaho state.
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Last time anything like it happened
was when, West Virginia was created.
Get Well soon!
Thanks, much better now, meds are working well!
👍👍👍
Thanks!!!
Get well soon my friend!
Thanks, better now!
You seem to be feeling better as the video progressed. Hope that you feel better soon!
Yup, I had not talked much that day until then. Doing better now, thanks!
I really like these fireside chats too.
Thanks!
Excellent video Chris get well soon having my coffee have a good day ( Ty Ron
Morning, thanks Ron!
When ppl say stacked wood is the best that means stacked in 3 rows, lifted from ground and covered on top dries faster. That kind of wood dries 20-30% faster vs just trown in a pile. Both methods are fine and you save huge amount of work with not stacking but for example you lose a day of drying time after a rain. Also those bottom pallets sink a little bit and if you don't lift them up you lose airflow but you gain some with vertical ones. Its pro and cons for both methods: if you have 3 cords and tiny storage=stack, if you have a 1000 and open field = bins, anything in between flip a coin.
I have been cutting splitting stacking and selling about 200 full cords a year for decades now. Loose wood on pallets in the open dries WAY faster than any other method I had tried. I know 3 FULL time firewood producers that produce 3-6 semi truck loads a week and they never stack wood..it is stored in huge piled cones for several months and sold. Never stacked. So are they wrong too??
@@InTheWoodyard No Chris they are not wrong, piles are not wrong, stacking is not wrong, your bins are not wrong, totes is not wrong. Those 3 full time firewood producers do that cos it saves WORK HOURS - they don't do it cos it is FASTEST drying method. Yours way is also doing same and is the best way to do it for a 200 cords. It is just that big bin of yours stacked in 3 rows would dry a little bit faster. If you still want to claim that not covered wood in the middle of your pile down at the bottom would dry faster vs any piece stacked in 3 rows and covered who am I to stop you, you do you.
My bins are working great the wood i put up this winter is seasoned
Yup, mine too! Cool!
Chris another excellent video 👍😮😊❤
Thanks for watching!
Do you think 5 mil plastic wrapped around your woodshed during summer months would bake your wood and speed up dry time in the sunny, hot, summer months and kill any possible bugs in your firewood?
NOOOOOOO! Wood needs air flow cover only the top.
8 outta 10. Take Care Professor.
Thanks, I am happy with that score! Makes you wanting more! 10 of 10 is like EVERYTHING I know!
Excellent fireside chat and good info. Here in Pennsylvania it's usually a cord or a half-cord you buy. Hope you are feeling better, keep popping the meds..... But what do you call a foot-long sandwich is Wisconsin?
a Sub or a snack. Thanks!
Enjoyable Vid ! - Hope You Feel Better Soon
Thanks...yup, much better now!
I hop your feeling better
Yup, much better now, thanks!
G’morning Chris. 1st, nice Brooks. I have the same pair. B, nice chatting, good points. D. Sweet action with the chair sitting.
GoodNightIrene
Morning! Thanks, I rate your comment a missing C!
Haaaa. 1,B,D
Smoke follows beauty
Haa!!!
Nice chat
Thanks!
Nice chat around the backyard conflagration.
Hope you are feeling better.
One question have you broke your truck window?
Not yet but I am planing on breaking it just for a video!
Glad to see you're hydrating, and I'm going to assume self medicating. 😉
I am! Ha!
My brother in law gets upset when we call it pop. He's from a different part of the state of New Yorkifornia. He says, "It's soda, pop is a sound." 😂 - Tim
Ha!...that is a good one...so obviously you say POP a lot! Does he cry when you do???...HA!
@@InTheWoodyard I do it just to get him going.
I wish you get well very soon
I am doing better now...THANKS!
hi there nice chat /get well john
Thanks, I just pretended I was talking to my good friend John!
The Average sick man would be laid up in bed, but you ain’t average!! 😉😂
I’ve heard you cover these topics before and I enjoy your advice and information EVERY time!
Appreciate ya!!
Get to feeling better!!
Thanks my good man.... I never liked average much.
I could sell face cord firewood for about $70 which isn't worth my labor but I'll cut it all day long to avoid paying a heating bill LOL,
There ya go...then it is worth it and you get some life extending exercise!
Good Chat Chris, Hope you get well soon my friend 🙏🪵
Thanks!
Get well Chris
Thanks!
Sack=bag
Trolley = cart
Cord=128
Dewalt= better than Milwaukee lol just kidding
okay!
On the subject of the zip ties, obviously it works, because other wood hounds have copied your method,heck I've even copied it, so there's that lol
and only few cents invested if it does not work, I like the zip tie method.
Yup, easy cheap and it works.
Yup!
Good chat. Need a few shots of moonshine, that’ll get rid of the croup!
My drink was laced.
@@InTheWoodyard 😂
A useless bit of (Norm) knowledge is a another no longer heard or mentioned kitchen cord which was cut to 10-12" length for use in a kitchen stove.
Years ago I sold a full cord of 11" wood it was a pain in the but to cut handle and figure out how much it needed to be...I had to stack it!
Hope you are feeling better when you get this where I worked it would be piled cause we use conveyer set out in sun and turn gray on top people come in to buy it and want all gray wood tell them that the wood this at end of pile tell them the wood under the gray stuff is more seasoned cause been there longer i just love how you explain everything hope don't bother you to much just bring back memories and will get that picture to you soon people ask why you don't get a processor it takes money and you know if it would benefit you for your operation we have one cause someone is there 5 days a week then September goes to six 30 hours monday thru Friday then 8 hours on Saturday so 38 hrs and mostly busy on Saturday cause people 2 day weekend only time to get wood i even set in the rain and made money cause people only time to get it come for a load ask how long im here say till 4 come and get 3 to 4
More loads have people come September get 20 8 ft pickup boxes and have wood for the year sell racks of cherry apple hickory and oak for smoking get my wood have a stick smoker just watching your videos but can't comment on them at the time so combine my thoughts cutting logs some go by eyesight other have a stick also some doors on wood burners doors only take a twelve to fourteen in log but it all works out on a Saturday they might run the processing machine and i have four people on double splitter my job was just waiting on customer setting on my rearend playing cash register like i said don't comment on all your stuff so put it all together your a good and honest man enjoy watching you would like to meet but I talk a lot and no work would get done take care my friend i want to get better and go back to sell again enjoy the people and they say where is the old man and when is he coming back like that means more than customer make friends treat them right and they remember you 15:29
Sounds like you filled a bunch of trucks up with wood over the years..probably kept people warm in the winter a lot!